The U.S. Attorney's Office Seeks Retrial Next Year of MIT Recent Graduate $25 Million Cryptocurrency Theft Case

BlockBeats News, November 11th, according to Bloomberg, U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking to retry two brothers who are accused of stealing approximately $25 million worth of cryptocurrency from traders on the Ethereum blockchain.

According to court documents filed later on Monday, U.S. government lawyers have asked District Court Judge Jessica Clarke to promptly schedule a new fraud trial, potentially in February at the earliest, involving the two defendants James and Anton Peraire-Bueno, both recent graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).